Jacquard-card repeating and transposing machine



.L. HERZOG. JAC QUARD CARD REPEATI'NG AND TRANSPOSING MACHINE.

APPLICATION HLED-SEPT,I. 1920. Patented July 18, 1922..-

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APPLICATION FILED SEPT. I, 1920.

' Patented July 18, 1922.

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L. HERZOG.

J ACQUARD CARD REPEATING AND TRANSPOSING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT, h 1920.

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Patented July 18, 1922.

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JACQU.ARDOLRD nnrnarrns AND rnnns'rostneMACHINE.

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Application filed September T 0 all whom it may conccm."

Be it known that I, LOUIS Hnezoe, a citizen of the United States, and a residentot Beacon in the county of Dutchess and State oi' New York, have invented certain new and useful improvements in Jacquard-Card Repeating and Tra'nsposing Machines; of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to machines for repeating acquard cards for use in embroider-- ing machine jacquards or automats. In machines of this class the operation of the machines is controlled by means of a jacquard card previously made on a mauu-- ally controlled punching machine, the previ onsly made card serving as a master to control the punching of. one or more similar cards in the repeating machine. Her-etejtore, the cards made on the repeating niachines have been. exact duplicates of the master card. The object of my present in.' vention is to provideineans not only or repeating or reprod'ucinp,- copies of the master card but also iliOI'tlitnSPOSil'lg the perforations in the card which 'is being punched in order that when the new card is used to control the acquard of an embroidery machine the design produced by the embroidery machine will be transposed as compared to a design produced by the original or master card.

In making); various embroidered designs it is often desirable to transpose or rearrange the same figure or design and heretofore it has been necessary to punch an original j acquard card for each position the design; and this entailed considerable labor: lit, for instance, a (lower is to be em'oroideretL on the four corners oi handkerchicils on the Well known Swiss embroidery machineait is (le sirablc to arrange the flower or design for each corner and heretofore'it has been customary to make a separate jacquard card for each corner design because the card which is adapted to make the design forthe left corner could not be used for making-the. design for the right corner and the cards for making the upper corners could not be used for making the bottom corners; and mnsequcntly an original card had to be made for each separate corner although the design, exceptfor its position, was the same throughout. The device forming my pres-' -ent invention is adapted to transpose the Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July as rate 1, 192a. Serial'No; 407,428.

producing the design in upright and in-.

verted positions as the onemay' be automatically made from the other; The pres ent machine may also be used for; repeatinn Without transposing. thus serving the mid t-ion Oil an ordinary repeating machine. but the invention relates to the'transposina fem tures. I I

in my copending case Ser. No. 407.429 filed conciurently herewith l have shown a machine for transposing fromright to left,

i. e.. for turning a design over from right to belt or VlCO verse.

one for producing any desired transposh tron. is possible to malre'ene master card by manual operation for corner design forsay; the upper left hand corner of a handkerchief, and then the cards formakingthe design for the other three corners may be ai'iton'iaticallymade from the first masterbv transpositions produced in my said: copendinp' application and in the present machine. Preferably, certain parts that machine and the" present one are n'uide', interchangeable so that the one niachiue, except for the parts which are changed, may beuscd for the entire Work.

in transposiugr from an upright to an inverted design; or viceversa'. it is necessary to transpose the perforations in the jacquard card-which control thedirection slides of the jacquard and the present deviceis intended to effect the necessary changein the perfora .tions to cause the design tobe' changed'troni an upright to an inverted position or vice versa;

In the drawings forming part of this ap the. machine of I Thatdevice'is adapted to be used in con nnction with the present "Where both devices are employed it through a machine embodying my invention in the preferred form, I

Figure 3 is a plan view of the slides and their frame,

Figure at is a sectional view showing the platens and punches, and part of the means for effecting transposition of the direction controlling perforations,

Figure 5 is a plan view thereof, and

Figure 6 is an end elevation of the devices shown in Figure 3.

Many of the parts of the present machine correspond with those of the machines heretofore used and T will describe herein only so much of the entire machine as is necessary to teach those skilled in the art the present improvements. Generally, repeating machines include neeclles which are acted upon by the original or master jacquard card, these needles being reeiprocated or remaining stationary at each operation of the machine, according to whether any particular needle meets with a solid portion of the master card or aligns with an apertur therein. In the drawings I have shown a bank of needles 1 which reciprocate horizontally in the slide frame 2. The needles 1 are staggered as in the well known Groebli system, in order that the perforations across the card may be arranged closer together than the size of the needles or punches will permit and the jacquard card makes two reciprocations for each complete transverse row of perforations and it is advanced the distance between the upper and lower needles in Figure 6 between two of the reciprooations, as in present practice. These needles 1 are the elements or members which are directly acted upon by the master jacquard card for controlling the perforating of the repeated card. The master card 3, arranged upon a roller (not shown) passes partly around the slotted roller t, being advanced step by step by the latter. The arm 5 rocking on a pivot 6 has a pawl 7 for engaging notches in a ratchet wheel fixed on the shaft 8: and the arm 5 is rocked by a pitman 9. The latter is rocked by a lever arm 11 and the upper end of the latter has a roller 12 engaging in a cam groove 13 in a cam 14; arranged on the main shaft 15. At each revolution of the cam 1% the pawl 7 is rocked to turn the shaft 8 and the roller 4 to advance the master pattern card one position or the distance between the two rows of needles 1.

The strip 16 which is being punched travels between the punch blocks 17, 18, and then between the rollers 19, 20 the former having feed pins 21 for engaging in the feed perforations of the card; and these rollers serve to feed the repeat card step by step in time with the feeding of the master card. There is an arm 22 on the shaft 23, which arm is pivoted to a link 24 and the other end of the link is pivoted to an arm The opposite end of the arm 25 is arranged on the shaft 26. There is a pawl 27 carried by the arm 25 and it engages a ratchet on the shaft 27 for the purpose of rotating the rollers 19, 20 to feed the card 16 step by step. There a detent- 28 on the arm 25 which also engages the teeth of the ratchet when the pawl 27 disengages there-- from, for the purpose of preventing the shaft 27 from turning when the pawl 27 is out of the ratchet.

The shaft 8 of the master card roller -1- is carried upon arms 29 which are pivoted at 30. and thelever arm 32 is pivoted at one end tothe shaft The arm 3a on the latter shaft is connected by a pin and slot connectic-n 35 with an arm 36 on the shaft 3' The lever arm 88 is fixed to the shaft 37 and it has a roller 39 engaging in the groove of the cam 14 on the main shaft. The lOCliing of the lever arms 38., and 34;. 32 causes the arms 29 and roller 1: to swing toward and from the several .needles.

The punches 40, 4-1 are arranged in apertures in the upper and lower punch blocks 17, 18 and they have collars 4:2 by means of which the upper punch block may return all those punches which pass through the card which is being punched. The upper punch block 17 is raised by means of a linl: 1-3 pivoted to the lever arm 45 and to the arm 86 on the shaft 37. The arm t5 at 4.? engages with and raises the punch bloclr 17 as the shaft 16 is rocked.

The punches 40, 1-1 are arranged in two rows in order to get the perforations on the card close together but the perforations made by the two rows of punches are brought into one line by the advancement of the card between operations. As this conforms to present practice further details of the operations need not be set forth herein.

Each punch is controlled by an individual. platen 48, these platens sliding at right angles to the planes of the punches iii a frame 49 which is provided with apertures in. the bottom to receive the upper ends of the several punches. Each platen is provided with a recess or notch 50 in its bottom edge and when a platen is positioned to bring its notch in register with the corresponding punch that punch will not be locked and therefore it will not perforate the card 16 as it will not be forced down. When a platen is positioned with its notch 50 away from its particular punch that punch will be forced down with the frame 19 and that particular punch will perforate the card.

The punch frame 49 is carried upon links 51 which are pivoted to arms 52 projecting There is an arm 31 loose on the shaft 8 f forwardly from the shaft 53 to which they are fixed. The shaft 53 is rocked through an arm 54 fixed at one end thereto and having a roller on its opposite end which, travels in the groove of the cam 141:. The platen frame 49 is thus periodically lowered and raised to cause the several punches to perforate the jacquard card. I

The platens 48 are moved backwardly or to the right in Figure 2 by the master card and they are mechanically returned after each operation by the following means. There are links 56 loosely journaled on the shaft 53 and at their lower ends they carry a plate 57 which engages the rear ends of the several platens 48 for the purpose of moving them forwardly. There is a rod 58 pivoted to an eye 59 on the plate 57 and this rod has a yoke 60 on its. forward end which straddles and is guided by the main shaft 15. There is a roller 61 on the end of this rod 58 which is operated by the cam 62 on the main shaft for drawing back the bar 58 and the plate 57, springs 63 serving-to move these parts forwardly. At eachrevolution of the main shaft 15 the bar. 58 and plate 57 are drawn backwardly by the cam 62 and then the bar and plate are drawn forwardly by the springs 63. As the plate 57 moves backwardly, or to the right in Figure 2 it permits any of the platens to be moved backwardly and as the plate 57 moves forwardly it returns the platens back to their original positions.

The parts thus far described correspond with present practice and my present improvements relate to the devices for modifying the punching operations to cause certain transpositions in the punching operation.

On the shaft 6% there are forwardly extending arms 65 which carry a movable shaft 66 which is adapted to be swung downwardly and upwardly when the shaft 6-1- is rockedyand a hand lever 67 is adapted to swing this latter shaft to place the trans, posing device into or out of operatioiu There are several lingers 68 hung from the shaft 66 and they have yokes 69 which straddle the latter and permit the fingers to move horizontally relatively to the shaft (36 though the fingers rise and fall with the latter. On certain of the platens (four as shown) there are fixed guides 70-through which the fingers 68 project and in which they are adapted to slide vertically. These fingers 68 are adapted to be lowered into position to lie between certain of the plat-' ens and the slides 71 which operate these particular platens, fora purpose which will be set forth hereinafter. The rocking of the shaft 64.- by the handle 67 serves either to project the lower ends of the fingers 68 be tween the slides 71 and platens or else to withdraw them, according to whether perforations are to be transposed or whether the master card is tobe copied exactly.

The use of the fingers GS'neeessitates a modification in the platen returningdevice and for this pin-pose l have provided slots 1 w- 12in the forward edge of the plate or in line withthe platens on which the fin 6e operate. These slots allow rertaui plaiens to move back to a position to the rear of the remaining platens hut they are only used when the machine is used for transposing'. There is a plate 7 attached to the plate 57 by thumb screws 75 threaded into the plate 5'? and passing through slots in the plate 73. Theplate T3has slots 74: which are adapted to register with the slots in the plate 57 when the machine is new for transposing hut when the plate is i moved. to the right to the position shown in Figure 5 the slots 74 in the plate 73 are no longer in registerwith the slots 72 in plate 57 and consequently all platens will he returned to corresponding position when'the returning plate 57 goes forwardly.

The needles 76 engage the feed pins 77 on the roller 4 which operates the mast attern and these needles reciprocate their re-- spective slides 71- each time the needles strike the feed pins '77 of the roller 4 the same as in present practice. The slide '71 thus operated effects theoperation of corresponding platens and punches for punching the feeding apertures in the card be-' ing punched. Beyond tl1e"tfeed punching needles-76 there are certain needles 78 and slides which efi'ect thepunching of perform tions to control the operation of special function devices in the embroidering ma chine but since these are not necessarily altered by the application of my present invention further description of them is unnecessary.

Between the needles 76 there are needles 1 in the'embodiment of'niy invention shown, and where the device is to he used in conjunction with the Groebli quard'these needles may be consi flered as representing four 8 needles. The

\n needles T9 of each group are adapted tocontrol-the perforasign. from upright to inverted or vice versa only the perforations for the direction slides needbe transposed. For each groupof needles there 18 a direction contiollii .q

needle these being shown at 80 and ceunt- "'oups each corntainiugy Iii ing from left to right in Figure 3 they are the first, ninth, seventeenth and twenty fifth needles of the whole series. These needles determine the direction of motion of the tambour frame moving devices of the embroidering machine and the perforations effected in the card by them control the coupling of the members J, D in the said Groebli patent and thereby determine whether the members which move the tambour frame are to more right or left hand. In the present case the perforations in the master card controlling the movement slides of the jacquard are copied on the punched card but the perforations controlling the direction slides of the jacquard are transposed, so that where a perforation appears on the master there will be a solid portion on the corresponding position in the reproduced card and where there is a solid portion in the master card there will be a perforation in the corresponding position in the reproduced card.

The needles 80 are connected with the slides 71 which control certainplatens 18 and these latter are the platens with which the fingers 68 are associated and which are affected by the slots 72, 74k in the plates 57 and 73.

Operation: If the machine is to be used for ordinary repeating, that is for repeating an exact copy of the master card without transposing any of the perforations then the handle 67 is swung to raise the fingers 68 so that they do not affect the operation of any slides or platens. The plate 73 in such case is clamped in such position that its slots 74- are out of register with the slots 72 of the returning plate 57. The machine will then operate as an ordinary repeating machine and every perforation in the master card will be reproduced the same in the repeated card.

When, however, the machine is to be operated for transposing, the following changes will be made. The plate 73 will be adjusted to bring its slots 74 in register with the slots 72 of the plate and the screws 75 will be again tightened to keep the plate 73 in this position. The several slots 74, 7:2 of the plates 7 3, 57 will be in line with the platens 48 which control the punches for making the perforations controlling the direction slides in the jacquard. The handle 67 will be moved to rock the shaft 64- and this will. lower the fingers 68 so that their lower ends are interposed between the ends of the slides 71 and the forward ends of the corresponding platens 4:8.

A master card having been placed around the roller at and a blank card having been threaded between the punch blocks 17, 18 and the rollers 19, the machine will oper ate as follows: Starting with the slides.

position, the roller will be swung bacl: toward the needles by the roc a' of the lever arms 38, 36, 3st, 32. 31 actuated by the cam 14 on the main shalt. The in ster card will be n'essed against the rows of net-dies l and those needles which contact with a solid portion of the master card, will. with their respective slides be forced. baclnvardly; whereas, those needles which are in line with perforations in the master card will remain idle. The needles and slides are thus operated in accordance with the master card. Before this operation takes place all the platens 48 which are operated by the needles 79 are in a forward position. with their slots 50 out of register or for ard of the pective punches, which is the initial position. If the machine were not being used for trans position the platens 4-8 controlled by the needles 80 would be in corresponding posi tions, but as operated for transposin the platens l-S controlled by need cs 80 wili. be in a position behind the rem ining platens w ;i their rear ends projecti into the slots 7i.

7 in the above d 72 in the plates scribed operation the needles 79 which moved back by the master card will move their corresponding platws back and this will bring such platens into position with their slots 50 in line with the respective punches. However, the slides in l re with the fingers 68 i. e. the direction slid because of the interposition of the fin move their corresponding platens back to positions beyond the other platens and this is permitted by the slots 7 2 74; in the plates 73, 57. The platens which are thus moved back by the needles 80 will have their slots 50 moved away from their respective punches which is the reverse of the other platens.

After the roller l and master card have been reciprocatcd, the fr; .e and upper punch block move down and the puncluis which have been locked by their platens will be forced through the repeat card. The frame l9 will tl'ien more up again and all the platens which were moved back before will be moved. forward again by the return of the returning plate 57. The platens operated by the needles 79 will be returned to a position with their slots out of register with their respective punches but owing to the slots 72,74 in the plates 57, 73 the plat ns operated by the needles 80 will. be returned to positions with their slots 50 over the rerespective punches.

In the above operations the lingers 68 are forced back with the slides which are moved back and they are moved forwardly again when the respective platens .48 are moved forwardly. The yolres 69 permit these fingers 68 to thus move in relation to their supporting shaft.

needles and the platens all in their forward In the above operation the needles 79 the pawl 27.

which entered apertures in the master card were not moved and therefore their platens remained forward and locked their respective punches so that these punches we e forced through the repeat card and for; perforations exactly as in the master card. Whereas, the needles which aiincd with apertures in the master ca rd were not moved and their respective platens were left with their slots 50 in register with the respective punches and those needles which met solid portion of the master card forced their respective platens back to positions to lock the respective punches. Therefore, the directhm punches formed perforationsin the repeat card where there were solid portions in the corresponding positions on the master card and they left the repeat card nnpei 'forat d in positions where there were perforations in the master card.

After each puncliine operation the roller '4; and master card are moved forward again and the roller 4: is turned by the pawl 7 to bring a new line of perforation in line with the SUVuYEll needles. Also, the rollers 19., 520 and repeat card 16 are advanced one step by The above operations are re ,eated n n til the whole card l'i asl'ieeu punched. The repeat card will now have perform tions for movement slides exactly like the master card. but the. perforations for the direction slides of the jacquard will he re versed, i. e., where there is a perforation in the master card there will be a solid portion in the repeat card and vice versa, When the repeat card is used in the j acquard the movement slides will he operated the same as if the master card were used and the extent of each movement of the en'ihroidering machine tambour frame will he the same. The direction slides will be operated just the reverse of what they would if the master card were used and the result will he that the tamhour frame will be moved upwardly where it would. otherwise he moved dmvnwardly and i t will be moved downwardly where it would. otherwise he moved upwardly, the extent of movement remaining' the so 1Q in each case. The effect of this on the emhroideiiin ma-. chine is to transpose or invert the dos n.

By reference to said Groehli patent it will be seen that the tamhour frame of the en|- broiderino; machine is operated by diagonal members which act upon a roller on the tambour frame which always lies at the point where the members cross each other. If the member B (Fig. 4) in said Groebli patent is operated to the right the tambour frame will be moved obliquely downwardly and to the right. If the same member B is moved to the left the tambour frame will be moved obliquely upwardly to the left. The change of direction of the member B therefore in verts the movement of the tambour frame. This is also true of the member C. It is also true thatwhere both members B and C are operated simultaneously and if the direction of movement of both be reversed, then the resultant movement of the tambour frame will he inverted. In the card punched by the present device every movement of the members B and C in the Groebli patent as represented in the master card is reversed in direction so that if the master card is adapted to cause the production of the design A in Figure l of the present drawings i adapted to control the perforations affecting.

the extent of movement devices in an em 'broidering machine jacquard,.'and others of said selecting members being adapted to control the perforations affecting the direction of movement devices in the jacquard, means for actuating corresponding perforating members, according to the operation of said selecting members which control the extent of movement devices, and means for causing the transposition in the operation of certain other perforating members by said selecting members which control the perforations for the direction of movement devices of the jacquard.

2. in a jacquard-card repeating machine the combination of selecting members adapted to be actuated by a master j acquzird-card for controlling the perforation of apertures in the repeat card for controlling the e:; tent of movement devices in'an emhroidering machine jacquard, other selecting members for controlling the perforation of apertures in the repeat card for controlling the operation of direction devices in the jacquard, members for perforating the repeat card, 013- erated by said selecting members, and means for reversing the operation of thesaid sec- 0nd selecting members on their respective perforating: members whereby perforations will be made in the repeat card where there are solid portions in corresponding positions in the master card and solid portions Where there are perforations in corresponding positions in the master card. i

3. In a jacquardcard repeating machine the combination of means for perforating the repeat card to control the extent of movement devices in an embroidering machine Lee-J3,

jacquard and members for perforating the repeat card to control the direction of movement devices in the jacquard, selecting members operated by a master jacquard card for controlling the operation of said perforating members and means for effecting the operation of certain of said second per forating members by certain of saidselecting members according to the perforations of the master card and adapted to be adj List-- ed to effect a reversal in the actuation of said second perforating members by their selecting membersfor the purpose set forth.

at. In a jacquard-card repeating machine the combination of perforating members adapted to perforate the repeat card, platens for locking the perforating members for operation, slides, actuated by a master jacquard-card for selectingthe platens for operation, and means adapted to be interposed between certain of said slides and their corresponding platens for reversing the operation of said platens on their respective perforating members.

In a jacquard-card repeating machine the combination of perforating members adapted to perforate the repeat card, platens for locking the perforating members for operation, slides actuated by a master jacquard aid for selecting the platens for operation, and members adapted to be interposed between certain of said slides and their corresponding platens for reversing the opera tion of said platens on their respective perforating members, and adapted to be moved With said platens and slides.

6. In a jacquard-card repeating machine the combination of perforating members adapted to perforate the repeat card, )latens for locking the'perforating members for op eration, slides actuated by a master jacquard-card for selecting the platens for operation and means for reversing the operation of certain of said platens on their respectire perforating members, including guiding means mounted on certain of said platens, and movable means having fingers slidal'ile in said guiding means, said fingers being movable in relation to said movable means whereby they may move with the slides and platens.

7. In a jacquard-card repeating machine the combination of perforating members adapted to 'z-crforate the repeat card, platens for locking the perforating members for op eration, slides actuated by master jacquardcard for actuating the platens in one direction, means for returning said platens, including adjustable means for returning certain of said platens different extents than others of said platens, and means adapted.

to be interposed between certain of said slides and their corresponding platens for reversing the action of said platens.

Eiigned at Beacon in the county of Dutchess and State of New York, this 9th day of August, 1920.

LOUIS HERZOG. 

